3 September 2020

Call for Proposals for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
NASA IRTF, MKOCN

NASA's 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility

The due date for proposals to use NASA's 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea for the 2021A semester (1 February 2021 to 31 July 2021) is Thursday, 1 October 2020. An online form is available for proposal submission until 5:00 pm HST on Thursday, 1 October 2020.

Available facility instruments include:

  1. SpeX, a 0.7-5.3 micron cross-dispersed medium-resolution spectrograph (up to R=2,500) and imager;
  2. MORIS, a 512 x 512 pixel Andor CCD camera (60" x 60" field of view) mounted at the side-facing window of the SpeX cryostat that can be used simultaneously with SpeX;
  3. iSHELL, a 1.1-5.3 micron cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph (up to R=80,000) and imager. 

More information on available instruments and their performance can be found on the IRTF web page. Exposure time calculators for SpeX and iSHELL are available on the respective instrument web pages.

Call for Proposals Web Page